Archbishop Gomez also said in a Jan. 20 statement that he was praying for Biden, the country’s second Catholic president, as he enters office so that God grants “him wisdom and courage to lead this great nation and … to meet the tests of these times.”
The first step in pastoral ministry with, for and by families must be listening to families describe their real-life joys and challenges, said Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell.
Our faith calls us to learn what the Lord is asking from our lives and trust that God is already at work.
During this time of crisis, rediscovering family as something novel, desirable and fulfilling — all great things — should give us pause.
Spanning the 2020 calendar year, the 52 Sundays program launched by the archdiocese includes a resource book and an online component to guide families through weekly exercises based on the Sunday Gospels.
Feasts like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s bring moments ripe for conversation with relatives — for better or for worse.
Preservation of the family, marriage and the unborn were the main themes of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington April 23.
As parenting rituals proceeds, as you gather with your friends, and laugh over each story and sympathize over the utter exhaustion of being a parent in the early 21st century, you remember that maybe you did some of this stuff to your own parents.
